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SMALLEST APPLE I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!

Okay, it was time to do all her big surgeries all at once! First, we stitched up her side. This was my second attempt. On the left is a picture of last time i repaired her, so all those stitches had to be taken out. I remember not wanting to use the seam ripper last time and sew on the reverse side of the fabric, but why i didnt even use an appropriate thread color, i'll never know.

After sewing up her sides, I could sew up all her shoulders and restuff her through her back seam. Once her chonk was regained, i sewed up her back.

It was supposed to be a ladder stitch but I don't think a ladder stitch is supposed to look like this, but! It's still a very nice and clean looking seam; I'm sure Snow will be okay with her surgery scars.

Just a small fix this time, using the running stitch again!

I did a long running stitch on either side of the ribbons. I tried to match them up side by side with each other, it helps make it a little neater. You can also see my knot where i ended my stitching in the crevice the arm's seam creates.

Here they are both together!

So now we are fixing the hole in Snow's chest where she lost her bow! It was very cute; i saved it specially in my sewing box for the day i would reattach it!

First, we had to reinforce the fabric with the hole and patch it up.

I used a really bad sashiko-inspired method to attach a small piece of scrap fabric behind the hole. Again, it doesnt have to be pretty because it will be covered, this time by the bow!

Here is a picture of Snow's bow and the thread color i chose to reattach it with. All of the green ribbon on Snow used to be a much deeper green, but i want to keep as much of her original parts as possible, so we chose a lighter green to more closely match her faded bows.

Here is the bow all reattached!! I tried to be neater with the stitches, and lucky for me the graininess of the ribbon kind of hides them, along with my effort to go with the weaving of the ribbon. It isn't positioned perfectly, but it is difficult when the bow has been scrongled (technical term) for years.

First, let's put the patient under anaesthesia!

As you can see, her nose gets flattened and crushed into the rest of her face, like a pug. It can't be healthy! To fix this, we're going to make a small pocket behind her muzzle to ensure the stuffing in her muzzle won't get squished out into her head.

Let's begin by taking some spare fabric from some old sheets and cutting an approximate shape of her muzzle. Then, we're going to sew around the seams of her muzzle to make the pocket.

It doesn't have to be perfect since we won't see it when Snow is all stitched up! It just has to be sturdy, so we're just using a hem stitch (? Probably not lol, it's not very technical) to attach this pocket. I went over my stitches multiple times to ensure that even if some do somehow come undone, the whole thing should stay in place.

Once i have most of it stitched up, i stuff some spare stuffing through the hole in the pocket, and when i'm happy with how plump her new nose is, then i stitch the rest of it up!